placating Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
    gruntle; placate; appease; conciliate; assuage; gentle; pacify; mollify; lenify.
    • She managed to mollify the angry customer
  2. adjective satellite intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
    placatory; placative; appeasing.
    • the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich
    • placating (or placative) gestures
    • an astonishingly placatory speech

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